You’re on a long train journey that lasts several hours, maybe most of the day. You brought simple food with you: slices of bread and slices of cheese, plus some ice tea to drink. Nothing fancy. You don’t count how many slices of either you brought. You don’t even think about it, because train journeys are cool and you’re just chilling out. You just assemble cheese sandwiches one by one, eat them during the trip, and enjoy the ride. Each sandwich uses exactly one slice of bread and one slice of cheese. When one of them runs out, the sandwich-making stops. You arrive at your destination and, naturally, the numbers didn’t line up perfectly. I mean, why would they…
Now you open your bag and discover that something is left over:
• either a few slices of bread with no cheese, or
• a few slices of cheese with no bread.
Which one would be worse? Standing there at the end of the trip, one of these outcomes just feels more annoying than the other, right?
Which leftover would bother you more, and why? Is it purely practical? Emotional? About mess, smell, value, or expectations? Or do you genuinely not care either way? I’m curious how different people experience this.
Bread would be worse because I’m less likely to want to eat just bread. It’s also minimal because why care about bread? I might eat it simply because I don’t want to get up to find a place to dispose of it. If there were extra cheese I’d just eat it
But I reject this scenario: a more realistic and relatable one would be crackers and cheese. It’s also philosophically more of a challenge since crackers are valuable bread
I’d rather have cheese if I’m on a train and don’t need carbs for fuel. If I was riding a bike, I might feel differently.
If there’s a disparity in your bread/cheese supply, you could stretch it out by only eating one slice of bread at a time, folding it over a whole piece of cheese (also folded).
When I’m at the deli, I tend to order by the slice so that I have exactly the right amount of everything for the sandwiches I plan to make.
Ultimately, I wouldn’t blindly throw cheese and bread in a bag to bring along on a trip. I would only count out the exact amounts I need. However, if I made a mistake and there was an imbalance, it would not be an issue because I have no problem eating either bread or cheese on its own.
I am realizing right now that my daughter would consider all of that to be evidence of autism. Which I still deny because I have not been diagnosed as being on the spectrum. In my opinion, it’s just rational sandwich planning.
Ha ha, my wife accused me of that as well, because of this exact scenario.
…. But eating sandwiches is very predictable: why wouldn’t you order exactly the slices you need for a week?
I knew someone would figure it out. Top tier detective skill!
Yeah.
I sure love to eat rye bread.
My wife no so much Of me Eating it Before bedtime
Rarely happens, I freeze bread and consume cheese fast enough. But bread would be more annoying, I can make breadcrumbs but I don’t use that too often (so that will have to go to the freezer too)
Leftover broad is worse. Leftover cheese is edible on its own.
Leftover… cheese? I know what each of those words mean individually, but put them together like that and you’ve lost me.
Ok, so am I just supposed to eat the cheese without anything else?
Far preferable to plain bread without cheese.
Hello. As a former consumer of cheese, yes.
If it helps, think of it as a very unique form of cocoa-free chocolate, or better, a solid form of yoghurt.
(I developed a dairy intolerance a decade ago. I miss cheese.)
I’m sorry for your loss.
How can leftovers be annoying? They’re food and you have them in case you get hungry.
Together, they’re awesome, but one missing is a bit disappointing. There’s clearly a synergy between these ingredients, like peanut paired with chocolate. Each flavour is individually just fine, but together they create something far superior. Being forced to settle for fine is just disappointing when the memory of something far nicer is still fresh in your memory.
As i am blessed with really great bread here in Austria, the only thing more annoying about bread is the extra weight/bulk compared to cheese.
Bread.
Leftover cheese is not tolerated in my house, and is dealt with quickly and mercilessly by whoever is feeling a bit peckish.
But there’s not much one can do with a solo slice of bread outside of adding stuff to it.
Toast.
Then you have the additional challenge of matching the amount of bread to the amount of spreadable butter or peanut butter
Why can’t somebody just enjoy toast
I don’t eat dry toast with nothing on it
Freak
Well, no one got raped and murdered to produce the bread.
Not only that, it’s also asbestos free!
Oh my God where do you buy your vegan cheese
You guys get bread and cheese?
The premise is flawed. I would not only count them properly in the first place, but continue to keep tabs whilst I supped, and adjust ratios as necessary in order to avoid unpaired leftovers.
That is a valid approach too.
We’re in Germany. There’s always more bread.
Cheese and a slice of sausage is a breakfast. Bread optional.
Yeah who needs those carbs anyway. Protein is where it’s at.
Neither is a problem, leftover cheese will just get eaten as a snack if it’s not enough to keep until I go to the shop next (I usually go every other day for something since it’s a 2 min walk)
Leftover bread just becomes a piece of toast with some butter (I basically always have it in, and get the replacement before I totally run out). Tbh with a coffee that’s just my normal breakfast some days anyway
You always have a toaster and butter on the train?
I’ve gotta be honest I somehow missed the entire context added to the body, but OP gave a good answer anyway
I screwed up the original post. It went to a pretty quiet community, and I tried to fix that by cross posting it here, but I screwed up that as well. Initially, it was just a title and a picture, with no extra details. As soon as I realized that, I quickly copied the original body here as well. However, many people had already replied by then. Oh well…
No need, if you have a normal kitchen at the destination.
